Kent Bush: Third-party candidate has a great chance

Thursday

Sep 29, 2011 at 12:01 AMSep 29, 2011 at 6:23 AM

It’s hard for me to believe other parties haven’t had more success in America. Voter apathy is at all-time highs. People need short, simple messages that don’t make them think. People like to identify with one group and align themselves with everything they believe rather than thinking for themselves. After all, the game will be back on soon.

Kent Bush

It’s hard for me to believe other parties haven’t had more success in America.

Voter apathy is at all-time highs. People need short, simple messages that don’t make them think. People like to identify with one group and align themselves with everything they believe rather than thinking for themselves. After all, the game will be back on soon.

This candidate is patriotic. That one is tough on crime. He likes guns. She thinks this issue is black. He says it is white.

Don’t waste time trying to understand vagaries and intricacies. Keep it simple.

I love listening to Republican supporters. They aren’t thrilled with their menu of candidates that are seeking the 2012 nomination – and for good reason. They are all flawed in the eyes of members of their own party and others. Many are still hoping that someone else will enter the race and save the day.

But when you hear the talking heads talk, they always end any argument about which of the candidates is least unappealing by saying “whichever candidate comes out of this primary will be better than Obama.”

That is incredibly myopic.

Of course they think that. And Yellow Dog Democrats are so named because they would vote for a yellow dog before a Republican.

When 2012 gets here, there won’t be any doubt as to which box Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News personalities will be checking.

The problem is, those same people voted for McCain-Palin in 2008 and watched the landslide overtake their candidate.

Putting a weak candidate on the ballot this time will yield the same results. If they want to win, they better find a conservative who can appeal to most Independents and a few Democrats as well.

But don’t wait for Obama to run away with the election in 2012. This economy and the fact that he is leading a country fighting two wars and several skirmishes would be challenging for any candidate.

Obama has already switched gears back into campaign mode.

He is so ready to campaign that he has begun pandering to constituencies.

I don’t know why, but candidates who appear before in an audience with a large percentage of black people suddenly find themselves re-enacting Arsenio Hall’s Rev. Brown character in Coming to America.

Why did President Barack Obama begin channeling Al Sharpton when he spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus?

He slipped into a stereotypical black preacher homiletic style and chided those in the caucus not to cry and whine and encouraged them to join him in pressing on.

Obama isn’t the first to do this. Even Hilary Clinton slipped into occasional ebonics when presented with the opportunity.

I hope the audience sees the pandering for the insulting effort that it is. If you speak to a Jewish group, do you find the need to use Yiddish phrases? If you speak to Hispanics, should you use Spanglish?

We need politicians to stop being actors playing the role of themselves and just tell it like it is and then keep those promises regardless of what polls say or how that affects your electibility.

We won’t see that candidate anytime soon. Handlers and managers have too much control over these puppets.

It’s all about using the status quo and winning elections. It has nothing to do with leadership or policy.

That’s why a third-party candidate should have a great chance of winning.

I just don’t know if voters are paying attention closely enough to notice a good candidate if one came onto the stage.